A 36-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles this week in connection with a computer hacking conspiracy involving malware linked to the 2014 US Office.
How to Deal with a Miscarriage“I’m sorry, there’s no heartbeat,” my doctor said to me. She didn’t sound very sorry, leaving the room so quickly—ostensibly so I could pull up my underwear—that she couldn’t hear me burst out in tears. There are many ways to lose a pregnancy—from the traditional bleeding in the toilet, to a missed miscarriage where you don’t even know that you miscarried, to a blighted ovum where the baby never started growing at all, to an ectopic pregnancy, where the fetus implanted in the wrong place. I’ve had most of them—they all suck, let me tell you—and I’ve learned the important ways to deal with a miscarriage. Chances are you were told in school that you could get pregnant any time you have sex so don’t have …Read more First, you will probably be in shock. No matter how nervous you were about becoming a mom, no matter how skeptical you were of the pregnancy working out, you will be disappointed times a million. And as awful as this all is—sad and frustrating and emotional—the first thing you have to do is figure out how to start or complete the miscarriage process. There are a number of ways to terminate a failed pregnancy (and I’ve done most of them). Naturally. This means you just let nature take its course. You wait for the bleeding to start and for the pregnancy to pass. For very early pregnancies, like chemical pregnancies which never registered a heartbeat, this is often the recommended route. My very first miscarriage—where I didn’t really know I was pregnant until the prior day—passed this way, and it felt like a really late period. Had I not taken three pregnancy tests, that’s what I would have assumed it was.)Some women prefer to do the natural way no matter how far along in their first trimester they are, but the downside is that you could be waiting a while—which totally creeped me out in my second miscarriage, knowing there was a non- living fetus inside of me. Also, it could be super messy (ditto on the creepy). And it can also be incomplete, sending you to surgery anyway (see #3). The Pill. There is a pill that can help the miscarriage proceed faster—especially if it already started. Misoprostol, which induces labor (and for miscarriages is often given together with Mifepristone) also can be messy and from what I’ve heard, extremely painful. I was advised not to use this because you often end up in surgery anyway (see #3). Surgery. As you can see from my previous two conclusions, I am a big fan of the surgical procedure to terminate a failed pregnancy, specifically the D& C. I am not a doctor, so I can’t give any medical advice except to tell you there are risks to every surgery. But as a patient, by my third miscarriage, I preferred this method of removing the contents of the uterus, usually under general anesthesia. There is a surgical procedure called “aspiration” which involves a vacuum and no general, but I found it awful to be awake, making conversation and watching everything happening.) An ectopic pregnancy must be surgically removed. Here’s why I preferred the D& C: Your pregnancy is terminated quickly and painlessly, for the most part. You don’t have to witness any of the sad bloodshed. It is the most effective way of making sure everything is removed and to get you ready for your next pregnancy. MOST IMPORTANTLY and I can’t stress this enough so I’m going to give it a separate headline .. Get It Tested. If you have surgery you can get what is medically called “the products of conception” tested. That means they can chromosomally test your fetus and see what, if anything, was wrong with it. For older patients, patients undergoing IVF, or in my non- medical opinion, any patient, it is a great comfort to find out that something was wrong with the fetus, which is why it didn’t make it. On the other hand, if they find out that there was nothing wrong with the baby—that it was chromosomally normal—you can investigate other solutions to prevent it from recurring. In fact, I’m such a fan of this method that by my 4th—and final—miscarriage—I scheduled it right away so I could make sure not to lose my chance to test the products. Moving On. It’s only after you’ve dealt with ending the miscarriage that the real loss may hit you: you’re not pregnant anymore. The sadness of this will be accompanied by actual physical symptoms, such as a drop in hormones— those happy- making chemicals that buoyed your bump. I myself often experienced a palpable gut- wrench from the drop, as well as a weight gain that no doctor had warned me about. Look, I’m not going to sugar coat this: There was no good thing about any of my miscarriages. And most people didn’t have any good things to say about it either, like, “At least you can get pregnant.” (Thanks a lot). But maybe the one good thing that can come out of this is that I suffered through indecision and different procedures so you don’t have to. Hopefully you can get through the physical part, so you’ll be free to focus on emotional healing and hopefully, get started trying again. FBI Arrest Chinese National Linked to OPM Data Breach Malware. A 3. 6- year- old Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles this week in connection with a computer hacking conspiracy involving malware linked to the 2. US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. Yu Pingan of Shanghai, China, was arrested on Wednesday while traveling at Los Angeles International Airport. Also identified by the hacker pseudonym “Gold. Sun,” Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States. According to an August 2. US District Court for the Southern District of California, Yu collaborated with others, including two unnamed individuals who have not been charged, to acquire and use malware to facilitate cyberattacks against at least four unnamed US companies. The FBI has identified Yu’s co- conspirators as living in the People’s Republic of China. At this stage, the names of the companies (i. The indictment is accompanied by an affidavit signed by an FBI agent assigned to a cybercrime squad at the bureau’s San Diego Field Office. A spokesperson for the bureau could not be immediately reached for a comment. The FBI has accused Yu of discussing the installation of a remote access trojan, or RAT, at an unidentified company as early as in June 2. A year later, one his conspirator allegedly installed malicious files on the network of a San Diego- based company. The same company was allegedly attacked again on or before December 3, 2. In January 2. 01. Yu’s co- conspirators allegedly used a variant of the malware Sakula in an attack on a second company based in Massachusetts. Multiple security firms have tied Sakulato the OPM attack—a massive data breach that involved the records of millions of US citizens who had undergone government security clearance checks. According to Washington Post sources, China’s involvement was suspected by US authorities, though the Obama administration never official ascribed blame. Chinese authorities have repeatedly denied any involvement in the OPM attack. The Chinese government takes resolute strong measures against any kind of hacking attack,” China’s Foreign Ministry told Reuters in 2. We oppose baseless insinuations against China.”Sakula was also used in the 2. Anthem data breach, which involved the potential theft of roughly 8. Independent investigators concluded with medium confidence earlier this year that the Anthem attack was likely carried out on behalf of a foreign government. Neither Anthem nor OPM is cited in connection with Yu’s arrest and Anthem does not appear to be based in any of the cities mentioned in the indictment. Yu was allegedly linked to use of the then- rare Sakula malware through emails obtained by the FBI. Yu’s co- conspirators are said to have breached a third company based in Los Angeles, however, in December 2. The attackers allegedly took advantage of a then- unknown vulnerability—or “zero day”—in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which allowed for remote code execution and injection of Sakula. Sakula is also a known tool of China- based advanced persistent threat nicknamed Deep Panda, or APT 1. OPM and Anthem attacks. The two unnamed and unindicted co- conspirators also allegedly attacked a fourth company based in Arizona. The FBI agent’s affidavit states that Yu provided one of the co- conspirators the malicious software as early as April 2. The communications allegedly show that Yu also informed the second co- conspirator of an exploit for Adobe’s Flash software. What’s more, FBI- seized communications show that in November 2. Yu indicated that he had “compromised the legitimate Korean Microsoft domain used to download software updates for Microsoft products,” and further stated, allegedly, that the hacked site could be used to launch phishing attacks. According to CNN, Yu was arrested after entering the US on Wednesday to attend a conference. This story is developing and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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